weather

Seattle and New York daily weather from 2012–2015

Daily weather observations from Seattle and New York. Transformed from NOAA data using the script /scripts/weather.py. The categorical "weather" field is synthesized from multiple fields in the original dataset. Intended for instructional purposes.

CSV 2,922 rows 7 fields 121 KB 2 gallery examples 2 examples

Fields

Field	Type	Distribution	Summary	Missing
`location` City location of the weather observation (Seattle or New York)	string	2 distinct	New York 1,461 · Seattle 1,461	Missing 0
`date` Date of the weather observation	date		Jan 1, 2012 – Dec 31, 2015	Missing 0
`precipitation` Amount of precipitation in millimeters	number		0 – 118.9 · mean 2.95	Missing 0
`temp_max` Maximum daily temperature in degrees Celsius	number		-7.7 – 37.8 · mean 16.77	Missing 0
`temp_min` Minimum daily temperature in degrees Celsius	number		-16 – 26.7 · mean 8.61	Missing 0
`wind` Wind speed in kilometers per hour	number		0.4 – 16.2 · mean 4.1	Missing 0
`weather` Categorical weather type synthesized from original NOAA data fields. Categories include: drizzle, rain, snow, sun, and fog. Values: drizzle, rain, snow, sun, fog	string	5 distinct	sun 1,466 · rain 1,087 · fog 139	Missing 0

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Explore

Pick two fields. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan. Click the legend to isolate a location. Both fields have values in 2,922 of 2,922 rows.Pick two fields. Tap the legend to isolate a location. Both fields have values in 2,922 of 2,922 rows. Vega-Lite · input binding · scale binding · legend bindingVega-Lite · input binding · legend binding

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Preview

First 5 of 2,922 rows5 of 2,922 rows

location	date	precipitation	temp_max	temp_min	wind	weather
Seattle	2012-01-01	0.0	12.8	5.0	4.7	drizzle
Seattle	2012-01-02	10.9	10.6	2.8	4.5	rain
Seattle	2012-01-03	0.8	11.7	7.2	2.3	rain
Seattle	2012-01-04	20.3	12.2	5.6	4.7	rain
Seattle	2012-01-05	1.3	8.9	2.8	6.1	rain

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Examples

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Provenance

Source

NOAA Climate Data Online

License

U.S. Government Dataset (other-pd)

File

data/weather.csv · 121,417 bytes · View on GitHub

Use This Dataset

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega-datasets@3/data/weather.csv

"data": {"url": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega-datasets@3/data/weather.csv"}

"data": [{
  "name": "weather",
  "url": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega-datasets@3/data/weather.csv",
  "format": {"type": "csv", "parse": "auto"}
}]

from altair.datasets import data

weather = data.weather()

import data from 'vega-datasets';

const weather = await data['weather.csv']();

Download weather.csv

At a Glance

Format: CSV
Size: 121 KB · 2,922 rows
Source: NOAA Climate Data Online
License: Public domain
Release: v3.2.1

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